So – I’ve been in NYC since 9/20/14 and truthfully things
are going great.
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Thanks to a couple fellow former Floridians, I’ve lucked
into a really great Glee-esque living situation, and I started booking work
right away through one of the biggest Extra’s Casting companies in the country!
The checks aren’t huge (yet) but they ARE coming, and I’ve
been having a blast working on some fun TV shows and films in the process. I even managed to book a role in a Crime
Reenactment series AND I was offered core work on another series!
For the uninitiated, Core is one of those Holy Grail deals
in the world of background work.
You get
picked to become a recurring extra. For
example – one friend worked all last season as an inmate on Orange is the New
Black. It makes sense to see the same
faces in a prison setting from week to week.
So sometimes a casting company schedules a wardrobe (costume) fitting
for you early in the season, sends you a pile of potential shooting dates to
keep open, and become an It boy or girl as far as extras go :D
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Fame and fortune? Not
quite… But regular work for a full season of shooting is a HUGE plus in a
business where you’re literally applying for work DAILY. Typically, you go into
a month with no way of knowing how many days of work you’ll actually book. So being invited to work several days a month
for the same show is an epic WIN.
But enough about The Biz - back to me! (What? Just channeling my inner pilot ;D )
So I get contacted for Core work – and I’m like, "SCORE!" but
then as the proverb goes: Shit - it happens…
In this case, “shit” was snow.
Last Monday and Tuesday pretty much every production in the city shut
down in anticipation of Snow-Mageddon 2015, which turned into – "Huh… so that’s
a blizzard???"
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Still, I got an email Monday morning telling me that due to
weather, my fitting would need to be rescheduled for a later date.
No worries. I snagged
a nice Korean lunch in midtown with a friend, took up residence at a local
coffee shop and caught up on some serious Facebooking.
Oh yeah – and I began checking my email every hour on the
hour for my rescheduled time. It didn’t
come…
By Wednesday, I found out I’d booked my audition from the
prior week and they wanted to shoot me on Friday and Saturday. So I reached out to the “core work” casting
agency to let them know I was still available for a follow-up fitting on
Thursday or Sunday. They hit me back and
told me there wouldn’t be any more fittings that week – but they’d let me know
about me rescheduled date.
This I find out Thursday morning. It’s a little late for me to book work that
day. Fine – this is the city that
never sleeps and I have Wi-Fi and Netflix.
I can keep myself entertained...
Friday and Saturday I shoot the crime reenactment. It was totally fun, low stress and a good time! The director was a really great guy and we
powered through so fast that I was released just after lunch the first day and
just before lunch on the second.
Still checking my email like a jealous girlfriend. Still no rescheduled date.
Now… I get another email from another casting company I’d
worked for just before Christmas. They
used me on an HBO pilot in an office scene.
Turns out, they’ll be going back to that same office now that the series
is picked up. Would I like to come back
to work? Hell yes!
So I had a fitting for THAT series yesterday.
Still no word back from the original series I booked. The shitty part is, I can see all the other
roles they’re looking to fill in all the emails that I get from the online
casting service I use. It’s like a guy
saying, “Babe, I totally want to go out with you, as soon as I get the
chance.” So you wait for his schedule to
clear up. Meanwhile you keep seeing
photos of him on Facebook with other women and you’re like, “What the
hell??? Your schedule was free enough to
get HER out of her clothes!” (Okay – now
I’m just mixing my metaphor with the fact that I’m literally waiting for the
production company to get me out of my clothes…. And INTO theirs!)
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And today I wait some more.
I wait for either of the jobs I’m already booked on to contact me and
give me something – anything to do – other than wait…
Just because your boyfriend hasn’t called you for a few days isn’t a
reason to jump on OKCupid and line up another date – is it???
I should just go play my Ukulele in the subway for spare
change…
Funny – isn’t it – that things are actually going great and I still managed to let myself get stressed? I’ve been picked
for TWO series this season, but I don’t want to not be available when they need
me, so I’m all chicken-shit about booking new work while I’m waiting for them
to call.
So instead of blowing up their phones or emails, I’m
rationally whining about it to you in a blog!
Thank you for your understanding and support :)
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